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|Coase|NIE|Data|Organizations|General Resources|
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RONALD COASE AND HIS WORK

Online material
Resources by and about Ronald Coase.


NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS

International seminars on New Institutional Economics
1983 to the present, published in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). Includes abstracts for the most recent period.

Transaction costs
Essay by Douglas W. Allen on the history, use, significance of the term transaction costs, 1999 (PDF file).

NIE reading list: articles
Selected articles on the NIE introductory reading list are available online.


DATA

CORI contracts library
Online library of 25,000+ actual contracts compiled by the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, University of Missouri, for use in research. Contracts include corporate organization, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, employment agreements, financing agreements, licenses.

Research datasets
compiled by the World Bank for use in research.  Over 60 datasets cover various sets of indicators, countries, time periods.  Example: governance indicators along six dimensions for 199 countries, 1996-2002.

Doing business
Measures of the regulatory costs of doing business across 155 countries, assembled by the World Bank.  Example: entry costs, as measured by average time spent and official money price for all procedures required to start a new business legally.


ORGANIZATIONS

International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)

European School on New Institutional Economics (ESNIE)


GENERAL RESOURCES

Resources for Economists on the Internet
Bill Goffe's outstanding collection of all kinds of online economics resources. Includes data, publications, organizations, jobs, grants, and teaching resources.

Conferences and job listings
Inomics: conference announcements, job openings, directory.

Do's and don'ts in abstracts
Advice on writing abstracts, by Mary Shirley.

Online articles and working papers
RePEc: online bibliographic database for economics, with 400,000+ published articles and working papers to browse or search; 300,000+ to download in full text.

Online sources - journals, papers
NetEc: broad array of economics resources plus databases of articles and papers, and downloadable papers. All can be queried in a common search system.

Economics organizations worldwide
EDIRC: Index of Web sites of over 9,800 economics organizations in 226 countries - academic, governmental, private. Can be searched by country and field.


NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MATERIAL

Translations
Some translations of Coase's works are available online.

Additional resources in Russian
Web page devoted to Coase's work, including list of Russian translations.

NIE terms in translation
Some basic NIE terms translated into many languages.

NIE glossary in Arabic
A brief NIE glossary in Arabic.

NIE Glossary in Chinese: Simplified/Traditional
A brief NIE glossary in Chinese.


SOURCES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS, TAPES

JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive, offers online access to journal articles through a paid subscription.  The subscription arrangements are usually financed by universities and libraries.  JSTOR currently has online 57 articles and reviews by Ronald Coase.

Amazon.com is a searchable resource for second-hand and collectible books, as well as new ones.
 
The Liberty Fund has produced a 2002 videotaped interview with Ronald Coase, conducted by Richard A. Epstein (NTSC and PAL formats).


DISCUSSION GROUPS

Public Choice List
discussion-list dedicated to public choice, New Institutional Economics, and Austrian economics, hosted by Claudio Shikida. To subscribe, send an e-mail to the above address.


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